Server 2003 Some servers are behind an hour. Event ID 22 & 25
About half of our DC's are one hour behind. All are running Server 2003, including the NTP server (DC1). All servers are in the same AD group with the same policies. It happened about 2 weeks ago,...
View ArticleNonauthoritative Restore
helloi have one DC and i Delete one OU .Then I Go to Restore Mode after recover finished i restart the system an log on normally .But OU was.why ou was ?i use Nonauthoritative Restore so we must...
View ArticleInstalling 1st 2012 DC to a Win 2003 Domain
I've seen posting: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverDS/thread/16d3e32b-ef01-459d-8426-74347aff4d89/And looked...
View Articlewhy the need to install ADFSsetup.exe instead of just adding role
Hi Folks - When looking into AD FS 2.0 requirements, why do most guides on MSDN/technet state that I need to download then install ADFSsetup.exe? Why doesn't just selecting the Active DIrectory...
View ArticleMachines in Forest Cannot Enumerate Foreign Trust
I have two forests - A and B. There is a two-way foreign trust between the two forests.dc1.B can see all objects in forest A successfully.however, all other servers in B (ie. server1.B) cannot...
View ArticleAD Domain Group Questions and Enterprise Admin
Here is my issue and I am first trying to determine if I am just not understanding AD or if there is actually something wrong because my DC promotion was problematic. If I am not understanding AD then...
View ArticleBest way to merge child domains into root domain?
Hi. Hope all is well.Have questions regarding merging domains. In our global infrastructure, we have our root domain with about 15 or so child domains, i.e., us.domain.com, eu.domain.com,...
View Articlehow could I use ldifde to trusted domain ?
We have trusted domain and I would like to query by ldifde.( I can see that domain by ADUC)I tried ldifde -b mydomain\myaccount targetdomainFQDN password -f test.txtldifde -b mydomain\myaccount...
View ArticleActive Directory Web Services Service will not start
The Active Directory Web Services service will not start on a 2008 R2 server with Exchange 2010. System Specs: Dell PowerEdge T310 Dual Xeon 2.67GHz X3450 24Gb DDR3 RAM Perc h700/1Gb BBWC 8 disks/ 3...
View ArticleDFS
HiKindly explain me Distributed file system console and DFS management console.In 2000 and 2003 only one console is available there we can configure the DFS but in 2003R2 two consoles are available...
View ArticleProblems with installing Certificate Services and SCCM 2007 client...
So I installed Windows Server 2008 after that I installed Active Directory Domain Services, DHCP Server, DNS Server, File Services (I don't remember why), Network Policy and Access Services, Print...
View ArticleWhat are my next steps when trying to join a server to a DMZ domain and can...
Hello,We are trying to join a server to a domain. The domain is a DMZ domain with 2 R/W and 2 RODCs. The server we are trying to join only has the AD ports open to the RODC and is 'firewalled off'...
View ArticleHow to create new active directory sites ?
How to create new active directory sites ?I have 1 DC & 1 Ex2003 on A site "LONDON". Now I am planning to create a another site "Manchester" with 1 DC & 1 Ex2003 server.London site IP subnet is...
View ArticleADMT migration to lower level domain
Does anyone know, if it's possible to migrate objects (users, groups etc) from Windows Server 2008 domain to another domain with Windows Server 2003 functional level? There'is no mention in...
View Articleconvert Distribution Group to Security Group
Hi Will there be any problem If I convert group type from Distribution to Security.These Groups scope is Universal.Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.
View ArticleMigrating Dc
Im trying to tranfer domain from 2008 r2 to 2012 while i try to use this command adprep/ forestprep am getting this error message.D:\support\adprep>adprep /forestprep ADPREP WARNING: Before running...
View ArticleAudit policy for AD
Are there any best practices on what to audit in a domain/AD from a security perspective?What do you audit - and what do those audit logs help you prove/disprove/prevent/detect etc.Are there any guides...
View ArticleW2k 2008 Trusts
Back Round:ok, i have inherited a 3 site company... site meaning physical properties in one comapny. One site no dc just a shared file server which imnot worried about well call site 3. Site one and...
View Articlereserve extension attribute12
How to reserve extensionAttribute12 for use by the testing for GALSync filtering in Active directory..Does anybody have idea on this ??
View ArticleActive Directory Directory Services Design - All comments/questions Needed!
Currently there are 20 physically dispersed locations. Physical locations are separated by as many as 1300 miles. Between these 20 locations there are an X number of forests and domains. (I believe X...
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